Vietnam prospective recorded in 1970 (The Big Picture)
This way you do not get corrected by hindsight from 2022.
This is presented in 9 episodes some over 2 hours in duration.
It has a disclaimer at the beginning:
"Portions of this film have been recreated to portray typical events in Vietnam"
Wow, James Ernest narrates with lots of good clichés. It looks more like a 50s movie film. Interesting as I know several tribes of Montagnards but never heard the term "The Rade" (Rhade) that are an Austronesian ethnic group of southern Vietnam. The presentation is worth it for that alone. Wait there are more the Nung people (Chinese).
I also saw lots of M2 carbines (pea shooters).
The subtitles are not keeping up with the action and periodically instead of looking things up using the term (foreign language). Not All episodes have subtitles.
Finally, we get back to the historical events leading to the conflict. We get the speeches of Lyndon B. Johnson.
Now it is time for Night of the Dragon narrated by Charlton Heston. Will the killers come tonight? Shades of "Apocalypse Now".
All this is just from the first episode. The balance is the iterations of the first episode.
Somehow with all the films, they seemed to have missed the Vietnam I as in and the armed recognizance unit I was in. Oh, well it is still interesting to watch.
As we come close to the end, we get how Khe Sanh is not Dien Bien Phu and B52s at night, unseen and unheard, until their payloads hit.
We still go on with small independent (The Big Picture) presentations with presenters such as John Ford.
This reminds us that no two wars are alike "Sorry Sun Tzu."
Finally, John Wayne shows up and Lowell Thomas, and General Mark Clark, and Gen. Albert C. Widmeyer, and General Mark Clark, and General Paul Harkins, and Sargent Barry Sadler Barry (singer/songwriter), and Admiral U. S. Grant Sharp Jr., and Martha Raye ( I saw her at the foot of Dragon Hill in Camp Enari), and the Alaskan senator C R Lewis, and Tom Hayden (Former Member of the California Assembly), and so on and so on.
Look for the book - "Vietnam War 50th Commemoration: A Time to Honor"
There are different state editions
Texas edition:
ISBN: 1732297630
ISBN13: 9781732297630
Has the seal of Texas on the back cover.